At this novel's end, the Justice charges that the heroine's father had fleeced the government in two deals, one of which involved a young Joseph Conrad and the other of which involved separate shipments of right and left boots.  Earlier, one of this novel's protagonists gets a lover killed by painting "This pussy is mine" on her stomach but forgetting to remove it before her husband comes home.  T
At this novel's end, the Justice charges that the heroine's father had fleeced the government in two deals, one of which involved a young Joseph Conrad and the other of which involved separate shipments of right and left boots.  Earlier, one of this novel's protagonists gets a lover killed by painting "This pussy is mine" on her stomach but forgetting to remove it before her husband comes home.  That character also has an affair with 14-year-old America Vicuna, whose grades plummet and cause her suicide, though he never sleeps with Leona Cassiani, his secretary at the (*) riverboat company that he takes over from Uncle Leo. This novel's other primary male dies chasing his parrot up a tree, just after having discovered his chess partner Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had committed suicide. Dr. Juvenal Urbino's death allows the resumption, after fifty-one years, of the romance of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza in, for 10 points, what novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
At this novel's end, the Justice charges that the heroine's father had fleeced the government in two deals, one of which involved a young Joseph Conrad and the other of which involved separate shipments of right and left boots.  
{Love} in the {Time} of {Cholera} [or {El amor en los tiempos del colera}]